The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-10

l tAAO OSA AAAdn yCtot anu ID uNi1NC0 gas or gescht, which sis nifies air, which was essentially immaterial in such early stages and state of philos- ophy.
 "So the Hebrew for soul or spirit, nel,heSh and 7udch, are derivatives of a root meaning to breathe; and yet further, the Sanscrit otma (analagous to the Greek of vapor or air) signifies both mind and wind or air.
 "As to positive knowledge, we find the philosophical St. Augustin bow 1 ing to the relentless problem when he says, By assuming that we know matter we betray our ignorance of it :; and it is only by admitting our ig- nOrance, that we can be said to know it.'
 "Plato, i'll his TheactetuS, accords to sense the power of perceiving that it perceives, which is but one step be- low independent consciousness and in- { dependent existence.
 But the mass of philosophers. like the rabble, perceiving only with their five senses therefore, deny as non-ex- istent that which does not affect any one of those senses therefore philos- ophy becomes in their hands only a Lebian rule.+
 But the clearest proof, below ac- tual demonstration, of the duality of existence, is what in metaphysical terms is called duality of conscious ness. Thus: When concentrate my attention in the simplest act of per ception, return from my observation with a most irresistible conviction of two facts, or rather two branches of the same tact-that l am-and that something different from me exists. And l am conscious of both in the same indivisible moment of intuition; neither precedes or follows; neither determines, neither is determined by, the other. In direct opposition to the thought of Dcscartes, who saw in the physical world only matter and motion. And also the same thought modelnized where it is held that thought is only a movement of mat ter. In direct opposition, l say, to this fundamental truth and basis."+
 After all this had been explained, which simply consisted in this, Morell, by the force and strength of the concentrated will-power, withdrew himself from the body, by the means through which he exerted the effects of phrenomagnetism upon others; and leaving the flesh without any symptom of life, save the absence of oncei.,a ,Io Aa blood remaining in its limpid or liquid state, seemingly unaffected by the absence of what might fittingly be called the spirit-for the want of better word-leaving the body entire he had mounted through the vast spaces and seen the woetul wonders of the moon.
 repeat, when this had all been ex- plained to me, the sun was just be- ginning to stream through the win dows of the room, when suddenly Morell, turning, addressed me for the first time for perhaps a quarter of an hour, we both having been buried in thought. He said, abruptly and somewhat brokenly, "You have been AhtNINctNo III illic StOIN Ol mine, my friend believe that by the means through which I govern my own spirit, l can disembody the spirit of another: this has always been my conviction, but have never yet found any one to whom I cared to divulge my power. It is doubtless unneces- sary for me to say that if you care to make the experiment, it will afford me q pleasure. So, if you desire, I will place you in the mesmeric state, and think it will then be in my power to compel your life, for the time, to take departure from the body. And if once can do that, you may be assured you will be under my control, as much so as though you were only in mesmeric sleep and my power to disturb that you doubtless remember, in the case of your unfortunate servant"
 As l said, these were the first words spoken for some time, and during that time my mind had been occupied by just such thoughts as that. To pass all the discussion we held concerning this awful and altogether unbelievable experiment, we finally agreed that Morell should place me in the mes- merle sleep, and then by the power of his will, to which mine would in that state be subservient, he would under take to disembody the spirit, which. according to his hypothesis, as have stated, pervaded the visible body in much the same manner of magnetism upon the matter of steel; and being thus dependent upon that body, par takes of the many ills and infirmities to which the body is heir; and through those very weaknesses it is closer bound and knit until the tie becomes seemingly indissolu- ble, till at last those very ills overcome the body, and dis SnlutiOn and death mart tho still cop